After a year or more in a spares box after a screwed up paint job, I stripped back my second attempt at a Kugelblitz ('ball lightning') and started again.
The kit
The kit is by Maco and uses sprues from Revell's Panzer IV Ausf H kit plus some one of their own.
As a kit it goes together pretty well and I was pretty happy with the build ... until I started painting it the first time around.
The only problem I have with this kit is that Maco should have supplied some Ausf J style exhausts as this conversion would have been applied to a late war Panzer IV Ausf J chassis. But who cares? It's a paper panzer. There were reportedly only a few were built but no pictures survive except for an example of a turret in museum in Germany.
Rebuild
To be honest, there wasn't much to rebuild. I just added back on the parts that fell off during the strip with oven cleaner.
After consulting a few of my Panzer IV reference books, I decided to add on a heap of spare track from the first Kugelblitz build that went totally wrong in the spray shed. I did use some white plastic card to fashion strip brackets.
What I think I aiming to show is a Kugelblitz prototype turret fitted to a reconditioned Ausf H chassis that the previous crew have welded on some track for extra protection.
Prime Time
As usual, I have primed it with Vallejo polyurethane primer in black. Also gave the turret a touch up of RAL 8012 Rotbraun AK717 from AK's German Late War Colours Set (AK 554). I'll be using the rest of the set on the chassis.
To be continued ......
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